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CEIMTg TRAINS AND STANDS . 5 CENTS JOURNAL CIRCULATION YESTEIIDAT WAS Sunday Journal 5c 1 " r 1 The weather Showers tonight or Taesdayr easterly winds; " " VOL, VIII. NO. 63. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1909. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. JTJSa", 5iV $(S40 NORTH ERN THUGS r v MR. R GREATEST Spokane, May 17. The greatest effort ever put forth by a railroad company to capture desperate ban dits will be made by the Great Northern Railroad company in the endeavor to run to earth the men who held up the Great Northern east bound train near Colbert shortly after midnight Sunday morning. The robbers stole nearly twenty thousand dollars and this sum Is supposed to be cahed near the scene of the robbery. The Great Northern and Northern Pacific trains have been repeatedly held up in the last fourteen months and thousands have been stolen. The officials are determined to put an end to the work of the desper adoes and have detailed an excep tionally large force to take up the trail. Several suspects are being shadowed .and arrests are expected most any moment. Other Crimes. Great Northern officials and police here believe the same two men who held up Northern Pacific train No. 3. near Mauser Junction, and rifled the mall car, two weeks ago, and who also figured In the fjreat Northern train rob bery a few miles east of Spokane last November, were principals In the rob bery of the Great Northern No. 3 Sat urday jMght. A good description of two of the rob bers is In the hands of the police and special agents. A total of $44,0OO reward is offered for the four men for this particular robbery. Should the men be caafht and prove the luat bandits who perpetrated the other two holdups, as the authorities believe, the total reward will be. $64,000 and will be paid jointly by the govern ment, the Great Horthern and the north ern Fsclflo. , A soldier named Williams, age about 85. and a bad character, answers the de scription of the tailest train robber. He has disappeared and the police and de tective are looking for him. The the ory that McDonald, partner of Ed Frankliauser, doing a life term for the Great Northern holdup at Rondo Bid ing, Montana, two years ago, figured in the robbery. Is not favored by the Great Northern officials. The postal authori ties siiy little money was taken, but the report Isj current that an Immense sum was stolen. Fosse on Hunt. Chief Ryan of HUlyard Is in the field with a posse of 25 men. He thinks four men were in the holdup, although only two appeared to the train crew. Three other men are belleyed to have been hiding nearby, and two of these are said to have shown themselves After the robbery and when the engine and mall car were reversed and sent Greatest Ever Known When Tariffs Settled C. & 0.. 3Jen Reach Out. (United Pre Leased Wire.) Cincinnati, May 17. As the result of the visit of a party of eastern finan ciers, who came on a tour of Inspection of the Chesapeake & Ohio system, it Is reported that the C. & O. may within a short time secure possession of the Chicago. Cincinnati & Louisville sys tem, giving direct connection between the great lakes and the Atlantic sea board. Those In the party were Edwin Hawley. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City bank of New York, Theoiloro P. ' Shonts, Clarence H. Mac kay, George W. Stevens, president of the C. O., James Dooley ana w. W. Scott. Peter G. Thomson, the millionaire 1 CHASE IN HISTORY OF ISMS' NORTHWEST RAILROADS DOOM SooBlHG NEW TIMBER TAKEN IN TO STRENGTHEN ' THE STURDY OAKS By Hiland Baggerly. Ban Francisco, May 17. he Oakland club will have a new shortstop this week. Manager Rridy induced Steve Rap an to quit Fresno and finish tho season with his club. Ragan played with Joplin last year, but finished the season with the Raisin Eaters. He is a young plaver, whos class Is largely an un known quantity. Manager Reldy. who has seen lilm work in a number of Hmes. is aulte sanguine of his making aood in the Coast league. He has befnJ hitting about .250 for Fresno and play ing Jl very, good fielding ,nmt. With Ragan at short. McCay will b swttehel . over to second in til Truesdal eara port.; When the latter la in shape Mc Cay will return to third and both Hogan AFFL BANDIT PRISON TE1 SOME RECENT GREAT NORTHERN ROBBERIES May 12. 1908 Great Northern express car robbed between Se-i attle and Vancouver. Messenger beaten Into Insensibility: 110,000 secured by bandits. May $1, 1908 Three boys hold up Great Northern at Great Falls, Mont. Captured. December 10. 1908 Great Northern train held up at Hill yard, just outside of shops. Ex press car with $20,000 saved by Fireman Ferrln detaching wrong car and fooling robbers. Mail car looted. March- 15, 1808-Great North ern Oriental Limited held up at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, and mall bags robbed. tearing down the track to collide with the stalled passenger coaches. It Is re ported two men appeared in the open from the side of the bank and then made their way up the tracks hurriedly. These two men are said to have been armed with rifles or shotguns. Suspicions Character. For many weeks Bpokane has been Infested with a tough gang of hood lums and hold-ups and other crimes have been frequent. The local polioe are convinced that the robbery was planned In thla city by some of the thugs and that on committing the hold up last Sunday morning the men made their way back to town and after per fecting arrangements either left here or went into hiding. The fact that there were four or five bandits In volved In the hold-up Is believed to favor capture. Orders have been sent to all the sta tions along the lino that the company will spare no expense in running the highwaymen down. A special corps of detectives have left this city to help the Hillyard and Colbert posses. Following is a list of the injured in the wreck after the holdup: I Wlnans, Lansing, Mich.; slight cut on head. Mabel Bodlnl. Colfax, Wash.; bruised none. Mrs. D. B. Sullivan. Columbia Falls. Mont.; cut on eye. Mrs. H. A. Rice, Elk, Wash.; bruised on cheek. Thomas R. Hayes, Willaceburg, Ont. ; left leg bruised. Thomas Williams. 312 Adams street, Spokane; bruised side. Mrs. Williams; slightly bruised. Gustlne Tolusco, La'borer, ; cut over eye. Sam Nyberg, Bonners Ferry, Idaho; bruised on chest. B. H. Harmon, 1112 Sprague avenue, Spokane; bruised thigh. Karl Riedelsberger, 1420 Third avenue, Spokane; cut on eye. IV. D. Grippe. Whitefleh. Mont., G. N storekeeper; cut on head? 1 paper manufacturer, entertained the vis itors. Npne of them would discuss their trip here, but the report Is widely cir culated that announcement of a change In the control of the C. C. & L. can be expected soon. At the dinner Vanderlln said the min ute President Taft signed the new tariff bill this country would begin to enjoy the greatest boom it had ever known. He said everything Was ripe for this boom, and only awaited the completion of the tariff schedules. Loans in antic ipation of this boom, he said, were al ready of the record breaking order. T A FT TO ATTEND EVENTS IN DIXIE (United Prww Leiaed Wlre.i Washington, May 17. President Taft tomorrow will depart for Petersburg, Va.. where he will unveil the Fort Ma hone monument. From Petersburg the president will go to Charlottesville, N. C. where he will assist In the celebration of the. anni versary of the Mecklenberg declaration of Independence. The president will speak extemporan eously at both places. Mrs. Taft, M. Jusserand, ambassador of France; Captain Butt, military aide to the president, and Wendell Mlschler. the party. c n. u .1.-4 c Lai . , will l-Ulnp! JKO and Christian will take their turns in the box. There was nothing ordtnarv about the fielding of the Oaks last Week, even if the series went against them to the tuni of 4 to 3. In four consecutive games the tailenders. played errorless baseball. This is a record seldom made by a club. Both Oakland catchers. LaLonge end Lewis, are nursing soro fingers. The former had no end of trouble handling WIggs' speed yesterday. Wlggs Is hard on catchers whose hands are perfectly Sound. About SOOQ crank paid -to-. ee the leaders and tallendrs play vrsterday afternoon.; Fully rI0,nfi0 attended th two games, which is 'the best showing the local fans have mads this year. Eight to 16 Years Is His Portion Judge Fiercely Assails Unwritten Law- Defense Pleads Extenuat ing; Circumstances. (United Press Leaned Wire.) Flushing, L. I.. May 17. Captain rier -. Mains, slayer or William A. Annls, was sentenced this morning to serve a term of from eight to 16 years in me state prison. Sentence was passed upon Hal us by Justice Garretson. Captain Mains was apparently the leant concerned of any person' In the courtroom when he heard his sentence to nard labor and prison stripes. He sank neavlly Into a- chair, but did not seem to be greatly worried over the future. Before sentencing Hains, Judge Gar retson delivered one of the most scath- ing arraignments of the unwritten law ever heard In a courtroom. He flayed that line of defense unmercifully, re fusing to take tsto consideration Attor ney oung's plea for clemency, although It was not opposed by the prosecution. It Is expected that attorneys for the defense will apply for a writ of reason able doubt and then carry the case to me nigner courts. Before court convened Justice Garret- son gave audience to Attorneys Mcln tyre. Young and Bennett, who prepared Mrs. Claudia Halns' "confession." After the lawyers had laid their pleas uDiure nun ine justice convenea court and heard a formal motion for a new trial. This motion was denied, and Mc Intyro moved for an arrest of sentence on the ground that the facts recited in me indictment did not constitute crime. He also raised a question as to tno jurisdiction of the court, oppos ing further action here at this time on the ground that at the time of the shooting the defendant was a soldier in the United States army. When these ' motions had been denied Attorney Young addressed the court, making a plea for clemency, offering all the grounds recited In the trial and urging that the captain was under ter rible mental strain following the con fession of his wife. DESPERATE MEII FIRE A PRISON Guards Lock Them- in Cells to Roast, Then Fight Out the Fire. (Hutted I'reM Leased Wlre. Vera Crus, Max., May 17. Hoping to escape from the famous San Juan de Ulloa penitentiary in the excitement that would follow the tiring of their cells. Resile Hulburt, William Mitchell mid Dr. C. S. Harle, the notorious New York Life Insurance company swin dlers, were among convicts who set their bedding on fire, according to dis patches received here today. Hulburt and) Mitchell, who came from Rochester, N. Y , with Dr. Harle of El Paso. Texas, were sent to the prison for crimes In Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico. They were convicted of Insur ing men and killing them for the insur ance. The attempted jallbreak was frus trated by the action of the guards, who locked the prisoners In their cells while fighting the flames. The fires were ex tinguished after the prisoners had be come unconscious from the suffocating smoke. INCOME TAX DRIVES CAPITAL TO AMERICA London. May .17. As a result of the prooosed Increased Income tax In the budget" submitted by the chancellor of the exchequer, Lloyd-George, the Duke of Bedford, extensive landholder and scientific farmer, is to.Jnvest $2,500,000 in. Calif ornla, according to a report cur rent here today. The immense Thorney estates In Cam bridgeshire were recently sold to the government by Dukt of Bedford for a sum In excess of 500.000. The proceeds of this sale, it Is said, will be Invested In California farming lands. The Thor ney estate was transformed by the duke from a swamp into a modern agricul tural community, and Is now one of the finest areas In the" United Kingdom. It Is said the duke may visit the United States in the near future. ANDY MAKES HIT WITH KING VICTOR Rome, May It. King Vlotor Emanuei and Queen Helena cordially received Andrew Carnegie and tils wife and daughter at court today. The steel magnate and his family were also pre sented to the crown prince and princess. Carnegie made a lasting Impression upon the king, who. after the Scotch American's departure, expressed sun prise ut his knowledge of art. The king said he expected to meet a man with a keen biistness mind, but that X'arnegle surpassed his expectations; During the nudlence the king praised Carnegie for his gifts to the cause of education and evinced the keenest Inter, eat-tn his life and experiences. : M THE CITY TH1 RAFFLES WILL VISIT THE JOURNAL OFFICE TONIGHT; COME AND SEE HIM Edward F. Girard Mysterious Mr. Raffles "WATCH MX! TITBIT AROUND." A few nointers on Mr. Raffles- Mr. Raffles' age less than SO years Raffles' weight is 135 lbs. Raffles1 complexion . Ie.t,lmes 'J""' In First Speech Since His Disgrace He Boosts for the Interests. U nited Press Leased Wire.) Washington, May 17. Denying that It was the Republican party's pledge or that the people expect revision of the tariff downward, Chauncey M. Depew of New York declared In the senate today that what the country desired was tho passage of some law, and adjournment. DepeW quoted General Wlnfield 3cott Hancock's statement, made in the cam paign of 1880. that "tho tariff is a local Issue," and predicted that if England had a tariff th.ii would equalize t lie cost of production with Germany. Bel glum, France and Holland, including fair wages to her people, she might not again become the workshop of the world but much nearer to It than she Is today. He said Dolliver, Cummins, Nelson and Brlstow had developed a new kind of politician, believing in a principle but opposing its application to their own products. WOULD-luTsriCIDE" LIVES IN BLINDNESS (United- Tress Leased Wlr.) San FrauctscQ, May 17. Hopelessly blind ns a result of the bullet he fired Into his brain three weeks ago, cEu gene Moore, son of a wealthy capitalist of Plalnfleld, N. J., will leave for his eastern home Tuesday in company with his brother, M. E. Moore. He probably will enter a sanitarium to ' spend the remainder of" his days. Moore's case was a sensation In medical circles here. For days he lived with the bullet Im bedded in his brain A delicate opera tion by the surgeons at tho University of California hospital, removed the lead and at the 'same time revealed the fact that the optic nerve had been severed. His brother persuaded him to return to New Jersey. OR CHflUHCEY HOT CHANGED . ... WHERE TO FIND THE MYSTERIOUS MR. RAFFLES TUESDAY Between the hours of 3 .and 5 o'clock p. m. he will visit Swetland's popular sweet shop at Nos, 269 and 271 Morrison streej, where, if possible, he will partake of some of the delicacies of this noted palace. Raffles at the Grand theatre between 8 and 10 o'clock p. ni.! Raffles will attend the big show at the Grand, which will be his theatrical home while in the city. He will be here every night until captured. RAFFLES AY HE'LL BE AT Ready to Meet the Good, Feo ple of Portland, Then Lead Them on Merry Chase Has Arranged for His Reception. By Edward F. GirardH,the Mysterious Mr. Raffles. Well, "I'm here, because I'm here" and only a few hours left before I am scheduled to dissolve my ma terial self In full view of the audi ence In front of the Oregon hotel, some time between 9 and ft o'clock tonight amid the burning of the red lights and I suppose the shining of a lot of dark lanterns. I shall only make this daring escape from the crowd Just to give you a slight taste of what Is yet to come and if I am successful in making a getaway you may then go home and dream of how you will go after me tomorrow for at 8 o'clock tomorrow (Tuesday) morning the reward for my capture will be In effect, and the chase Is on in full blast. Will Be at Swetland's. The first place I shall present myself for your special benefit will be at Swetland's popular sweet shop, No. 269 Morrison street, between the hours of 3 and 6 olock Tuesday afternoon, where I will give you a chance to repeat your little speech of 11 words In my ears but you must be sure to say It right: A'ou are the Mysterious Mr. Raf fles of The Oregon Daily Journal." Iilsten to the Band. According to the arranucments al ready cut and dried by The Journal I am to be met at the Oregon hotel at 7 o'clock p. m. sharp by The Journal's Car rier band of 35 skilled musicians and a few automobiles and a lot of other stuff. all of wnloh will prove of Joyous Interest to the bunch who will present them selves to size me up and conspire to get my gilded scalp. Don't I.lke Fireworks. Somehow, or other all this fireworks business is not altogetner to my liking. I am being shoved ahead here like the "Ruhe" in the circus parade, and the chances are 40 cents to a nickel's worth of doughnuts that I will get the "stage fright" when the limn arrives for melo make mv official disappearance from the Oregon hotel tonight. To Tlis Journal Of floe. After I have a chance to get into my lig buzz wagon and the band starts to play we will direct our course to The Journal office where we will have our pictures taken if It is not too late, and I will then be introduced to the crowd and personally the special delegation who are slated to look me over, feel my pulse, look at my tongue and otherwise satisfy themselves of the fact that I am the real live "Candy Kid" of the present reading. After all this 1 am to again assemble in the parade, and after a buzz around the principal streets In a frantic effort to convince everybody that 1 am actu ally In town I shall then return to the Oregon hotel, where I will have pre viously registered, and will there do no more than waste my time In the lobby. I will be there to look you over even as keenly as you will be there to look me over. Folio Alert. I understand that several members of the police force have already figured It out as to how they will stop ine in my (Continued on Page Six.) T S EVEMM Chief Gritzmachcr, Vlio Says His Detectives Can Capture Raffles. CHIEF SAYS L Portland Policemen Seldom Overlook Criminals; Raf fles "Up Against It." "Any officer, patrolman, detective or member of the police department who is lucky enough to discover Raf fles of The Oregon Journal will be permitted to take the 500 reward offered by The Journal for his cap ture." So says Chief of Police Charles Gritzmaeher In reference to the man who is to make his disappearance In Portland today. "There is a rule In the department that the rewards offered for the cap ture' of persons are to go Into the gen eral fire and relief fund for the support of sick and Injured firemen and police men," continued the chief. "This, how ever, will not hold in this case. Raffles isn't wanted because he is a criminal and If he is captured by one of my men It will be Just like finding anything else which Is not wanted hy the depart ment. He will bo allowed to keep the money. "This looks pretty easy - to me. If Raffles tells Just where be Is going to be every day he will bave to be a rood one to get away from the Portland po lice. Ton know oar detectives and uni formed men have a record of picking up pretty nearly every one who Is wanted hero and while the men will not be sup posed to go out and hunt for him while on duty, It looks pretty easy for them when off duty. "Oni! thing striken me as a bit remark able. I notice that Raffles makes use of the word 'De-lec-a-ti ves' of Portland. plain clotlu-s men. even before he reaches the city. Now that is a term which I believe is entirely local. It is used In a humorous way about the local detectives but I have never heard any plain clothes man coming fn from the outside, use the term, although they ail pick It up just lifter they reach heru. Mut Raffles seems to have picked up the word even before he reached here." HEW BOOST FOR THE NORTHWEST ilaiTimaii Passenger Man Says Wabash Territory Will Be Tributary. (United Press Leased Wlrc. Tacoma, Wash., May 17. J. R. Nagle, traveling passenger agent for the South ern Pacific and Union Pacific lines, with headquarters at Portland, said: "In a year from now we will have through trains running into Tacoma from Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City. St. Louis and the other cities of the middle west, and making close connections with New Tork and the Atlantic sea board. "The new train service by the Wabash over our lines is proving popular with the traveling public from the section traversed by that system, and one of the results of the service will lie the advertising the northwest will gt through the Wabash traffic department in that territory. "Beginning with the summer time card, the Harrlman lines have a fast and elegant train service across the continent that will be the equal of any thing now running on any of the other lines or that will he put on hy them. We are looking for a great passenger traffic this year and the northwest will undoubtedly bo more talked about and attract more, attention than ay other section of the country." -. J- v D REWARD STRAUS TRIAL DRAWS BIG AUDIENCE Accused Ex-Cashier Will Endeavor to Show That He Is Not Responsible for Shortage in Accounts Dur ing His Term. Charles A. Straus, ex-cashier of ths Portland postoffice. .was put on trial In the federal court this morning, charged with defalcation "In his ac counts to the amount of $4090. Straus was Indicted during a recent session of the federal grand jury. the charge against htm growing out of a shortage discovered after his resignation from office about a wear ago. The principal witnesses relied upon for evidence by the government are John VV. Mlnto. postmaster during , Straus' term of office; J. J. Shipley, as sistant postmaster during the same time, and Inspectors Wayland, Rlehies and Clement, who audited and inspected the accounts. It became evident from the time the case was called before Judge Wolverton that both prosecution and defense an ticipate a bitter struggle. The great est possible care Is being taken In the selection of Jurors, both by Unite ' States District Attorney John McCourt and his assistant, J. R. Wyatt, and counsel for the defendant. John V. Lo gan. W. P. XaRoche and C, A. and Johu H. Stevenson. Out of the first panel only five , Jurors, Charles Remington, C. A. Mil ler, Thomas Daniels, A. W. Beebe and Robert Deal. were accepted. Rufus Waggoner, W. A. CunnlnghamiK. W. Oliver." W. L. Cummihgsr.TrTiomas ills lop and Morris H. Perkins were ex cused principally onthe ground of their acquaintance with the defendant, his attorneys or his relatives. Only ons juror accepted by the defense was re jected by the government, he being Thomas Hi slop, an aged resident .of Portland, who was acquainted with ,akV parties connected with the case. Seven additional jurors were, called before the noon recess. Of these Thomas Carr was accepted. Tho others, had not been passed on when the noon recess was taken. They were Klmer Denny, J. W. Hamble. J. N. Hocker-. smith. W. J. Hadley, N. F. Griggs and' 8. 3. Smith. The line of prosecution favored by the government evidently Is to narrow down responsibility for the care of post office funds to Straus. The object of the defense will be to show that re sponsibility rested equally on the post master, thei assistant postmaster, the . cashier and the postmaster's secretary. No attempt is made by Svaua or his . attorneys to deny that the moiwy Is gone. That much is admitted, but the defendant denies that he Is the man who took It. Mr. Straus resigned from the cashier ship of the Portland postoffice on ac count of the condition of his eyes. He appeared In the courtroom this morning, his eyes heavily shaded with dark glasses. By his. side was his wife, who during the entire prosecution has reso lutely declared her faith in her,hus- band's innocence, R.ibert Deal, a farmer from IaGrande, furnished the only element of amuse ment presented In the morning session of court. Counsel John F. Iogan asked the prospective juror if he or his family had ever held official -position..-"-"!-, never did. but my wife has," replied Deal. "What position was that?" ques tioned Mr. Logan, mystified. "She Is my wife," asserted -, the farmer, gravely. He was accepted. Because of the prominence of Mr. ' Straus and his connection with the busl- . ness life of Portland, many persons were present to listen to the pleadings.' The courtroom was crowded, many, not beine able to find seats. HaveYouReadihQ Vant Ad Section of Today's Journal mm'' .' - v f ' v,l tdrertlse for ? . 1 . help Of Advertise for fol situations ClAdTertlso furnished " rooms for real 2J0AderUl real esUts Jor C Advertise) business .k 00 chances Z Advertise hoses 'for rent 1 Q Advertlss flats for 1,1 rent Advertise hoasek replug rooms for rent ' Mors Want Ads In Tb Journal than any other Portland paper There Is a fic iso n THINK IT Ovin: